I read an article called “Live from Mars” by Jeffery Kluger. This article is about when NASA a $2.5 billion SUV-size sent rover to mars so that it can study mars. They spent plenty of years trying to master it not crash landing it, they had to master unmanned soft landing before Neil Armstrong was able to step foot on the moon in 1969. Mars curiosity rover has been a complete success, so far. Funding for mars missions is set to fall from $587 million in 2012 to $360.8 million in 2013 that has forced the U.S. to drop out of a partnership they had with the European Space Agency for two missions they had. “We can just barely afford those missions” says NASA’s john Grunsfeld.
I think it’s really cool how they have a rover on mars that tells NASA everything that happens up there & that learns about it. Instead of sending people up there all the time.
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